next band song

something a bit straightforward i knocked out in a couple hours

lyrics:
michael, laid on his back
cradles a canvas bag
and he knows 
sickness grows
from a long time ago

fox and the crow
turn off your phone
you’ll dive alone
and feel 


michael, on the right track
patient to come in last
so it goes
years flow
from a wound long ago 
michael
michael

fox and the crow
turn off your phone
a drive alone
to feel

michael (rough 1st draft)

rough

lyrics: 
from the spot where I am sitting
i can hear what you’re thinking
it speaks lonely, short revisions
it speaks muted television. 

you are bitter, sentimental 
a revolver atop the mantle
it sings sour and romantic 
in the flight path of the planets

satin revolver (rough 1st draft)

need to fix the vocals but i have a sore throat :(

olly your heart’s swollen shut
your different faces on the rocks
sarah you’re already done 
you’ve no arms left in which to run

olly he smokes out till dusk
his head in his hands and his lungs
sarah has grown to distrust 
a heart that promises too much

olly she’s all you have known
now bathed in halos from her phone
sarah he’s already shown
the best things rarely float alone

swollen shut (1st draft)

for leonard and marianne

lyrics:

Hopeless reckless beauty 
Get’s dashed upon the rocks 
Yet the wreck’s always more beautiful 
Than the ship ever was

To find love on an island 
Is to be stranded by all means
Yet love that ends remains sublime
Like the sailor and his sea

Stranded in a lifetime 
That’s long and blessed with pain
Like standing on a landmine 
Or crying in the rain 

Like a blind beggar house wren 
Don’t know who I’m supposed to be
I guess all men will be sailors then
And all roads will meet the sea

Like the three heads of a hydra
I am divided by the docks 
But I’m reborn in your iris 
Made more beautiful by what was

Hopeless reckless beauty 
Get’s washed away with time
Like a long forgotten duty 
But still crystal in the line

hydra (demo)

first draft gonna update soon with some new vocals and bits and bobs enjoy

the girl is grateful
to the artist
for her role
in the show
her hair hangs graceful
round her carcass 
with grace he’ll never 

know
when the pieces fit more snuggly every time
I know
That you’ve never out been left out between white lines

(know)

the framings playful 
and the part fits
small mercies
get bestowed
he licks a label 
to surmise it  
my pessimism

grows
when the grief gets writ subtly every line 
she froze
said all majesty you have should be mine

graceful (1st draft)

another early draft need 2 work on the vocals and ending, enjoy x

stealing her promises 
a nail in the picket fence
bordering her kingdom
there’s towers of ivory 
and hangups from infancy 
all within her wisdom 

deep understanding of endless disgrace
cavernous to you

you wont go to heaven 
if you wont heed their prayers 
trembling in the glares

night sky hangs ominous  
the moon live with mis-content 
spectres haunt the victim 
the thicket is spidery 
and riddled with infantry 
bleeding from the system  

obelisk standing where once was a face
ravenous and blue 

you wont go to heaven 
if you wont heed their prayers 
trembling in the glares

you wont go to heaven 
if you wont heed their prayers 
trembling in the glares

you wont go to heaven 
if-

cavernous (1st draft)

an extremely skeletal draft on a new song

rots my teeth and stains my skin
this treaty’s become punishing 
open glow
dusty road 
close my eyes
light my lantern in the northern skies  

it reaches out just like a fist 
growing out me like a cyst 
tragic joke
broken yoke
to my surprise 
put back together before sunrise

all bummed out and full of sin
my head’ll burst just pull the pin 
molov, the state I’m in

(could you tell me how that feels)

lantern (1st Draft)

giant robot anime make me sad. super super rough draft probably my worst mix to date. vocals need a retake too. 

Baby please kill me
I want to die 
It’s a long, motionless entry
Playing out inside 
Honey I can’t breathe
My own lungs aren't mine
How desperate can one man be
To draw out the time?
But I’ll never leave
It’s so much safer inside

Open the blood vessels 
Flowing to my muscles 
Bleeding is no struggle
Easy
Drop in the air pressure
Breathing at your leisure
Choking for your pleasure
Dying
 
Brief conversations 
Leave no time for lies
If you have anymore reservations 
To personify 
Find me at the station 
Where cicadas cry 
I’ll tell you my revelation
We all have to try 
From this lofty elevation
I’ll swallow the sky 

Open the blood vessels 
Flowing to my muscles 
Bleeding is no struggle
Easy
Drop in the air pressure
Breathing at your leisure
Choking for your pleasure
Dying
Close my eyes
Nothing

shinji (1st draft)

1st draft of some decent pavement worship w/ instrumental chorus 

playground eyes your crimson smiles
i'm living with denial I’ve sold the truth
in porcelain pristine prom queen 
guise-less smiles and clumsy miles

gifted foresight tragic termite 
pressed upon your boots 
heartless wreckage, goddess scented
cannot tell the truth 

placemat heart our stunted start 
gaze raised to the stars you look right through
me missing, mistress listen 
silent starts and missing parts 

days in Autumn, Springtime’s daughter
warm rains sound aloof 
harmless feelings pleasant dreaming 
cannot tell the truth

playground (1st draft)

country ep coming at some point 

humming wires, can you hear the west sing?
I can I see my destiny manifesting 
or maybe just mirage in the road 
toll booth trapped and change collecting 
golem monuments of pain erecting 
their fingers pointing out where to go

man alive, the whole crops infested 
all that’s left is what’s been digested
a barren silent desert nothing grows 
and of the pain that you invested 
the mercy toxins you’ve ingested
will ensure you let feel like letting go

heat flows
out the rim of a bottle
I feel indisposed 
nobody knows
It’s a brief blurb without you
Im here and gone alone

frontier

super rough first draft of a new synthpop idea, forgive the logic default drum loops and simple bass. bare bones.

sordid business but you came unprepared 
to bear witness through chemicals stained air
may I say, blown away
colours in your hair
best behaved, a freeze frame
beauty’s not been spared

silent mistress with deep marble eyed stare
bears no witness to his tangling hair 
may I say, I know shame
colours that we’ve shared 
move in place, we rotate
not moving anywhere

angel lifted by your vulgar night prayers 
tired and listless in truth he’s hardly there
i field blame, all the same 
the truth is hardly fair
through decay, I reframe
the fox becomes a hare

marble eyes (1st draft)

been pretty ill lately so here's an insanely rough unfinished draft i've been working on for ages. i've been working with a bassist and some other collaborators so probably won't be posting much here till my ep's done.

this summers burning out
the silly things we talk about
the wires humming softly to the ground

I will assuage your doubts 
with springtime growing out my mouth
and when I leave I’ll fade without a sound
 
can’t shake the feeling now 
hear footfalls near the hallowed ground
so when I leave I’ll leave without a sound 

so don’t let me go
in my dreams pylons drone
sticks in my throat 
through the woods a dull glow 

this cabins ailing now
these crippled walls are falling down 
the wires tearing softly through the bough

i will assume your doubts
and silly things you talk about 
and when you leave I’ll fade to Tinseltown

cant make a fleeting sound 
just silence near the hallowed ground
and when you leave you’ll bead upon my crown/brow

so don’t let me go
in my dreams pylons groan
sticks in my throat
like the winds ceased to blow

next band song

Possum Kid